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Originally Posted by sweevo
If we were to accept anecdotes and personal experiences as evidence, we would conclude that thousands of different and contradicting gods exist.
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Well... yes. You have a problem with that?
Some apparently contradictions are only semantic clashes:
THE WORD IN BOLD IS
RED.
Is the word in bold red, or blue? Depends on how it's described. The word can indeed be "red" and "blue" at the same time. A lot of the "contradictory" descriptions of gods are that kind of problem.
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Originally Posted by HarryT
Yes, and there are hundreds of millions of people on this planet who believe exactly that. Hinduism, for example, has quite literally millions of gods.
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I knew the number was high; didn't know it was millions. (Wow. I'll have to look into the Hindu definition of "god.")